Definition of "manumits" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of manumit. (verb)

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• "When the number of slaves becomes so great that the master can not profitably employ them, he manumits them in self-defense."
• "That manumits, that calls from exile home, reappears in a hymn as:"
• "Randolph, John, of Roanoke, on the coasting trade in slaves on depression in Virginia manumits his slaves"